Top 100 Not Aging Quotes
#1. Lippmann was very good at staying young, at not aging and becoming a prisoner of his past experiences.
David Halberstam
#2. Not aging is not the same as living, and without human contact, his soul dried up.
Mitch Albom
#4. I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.
I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.
Joan Didion
#5. We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.
Michio Kaku
#6. The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality.
Eric Liu
#7. We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
Elizabeth Janeway
#8. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?
Kenneth Cain
#9. I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.
Sam Lipsyte
#10. Most people think that aging is fatal and scientific data shows that that's not true.
Deepak Chopra
#11. What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.
Caryl Rivers
#12. Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
Betty Friedan
#13. Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.
Pete Egoscue
#14. ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
Gore Vidal
#15. And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already
and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing ... I'd rather be alone.
Zadie Smith
#16. Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.
Jane Fonda
#17. Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.
Robert Farrar Capon
#18. Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman's ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman's usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship.
Robin Caldwell
#19. Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.
Bill Gross
#20. We forget that 'old' in age typically does not mean 'old' in terms of relevance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I'm not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.
Annabelle Selldorf
#22. They had all grown older, but he still did not feel he had wisdom to go with his aging.
Michael Ondaatje
#23. Aging does not need to be hidden or denied, but can be understood, affirmed and experienced as a process of growth by which the mystery of life is slowly revealed to us.
Henri Nouwen
#24. Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible.
Orhan Pamuk
#25. Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider.
Caitlin Moran
#26. Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us through time, thoughtfully and treacherously; it changes with us, so that we appear not to change.
Christian Metz
#27. Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.
Stephenie Meyer
#28. It seems there is an ideal degree of aging which is admired. Things should not be new, but neither should they be rotten with age (except in New Orleans, which fosters a cult of decay).
Stewart Brand
#29. The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real world with its trials and tribulations. I would say it's about that and not about aging or death.
Daniel Petrie
#30. Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.
Evelyn Lauder
#31. He is obviously proud of his shock of curly gray hair; it is the symbol of his aging masculinity. This is not a hairstyle; it is a world view.
Pierre Lemaitre
#32. I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.
Pablo Casals
#33. Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.
Jeanne Moreau
#34. If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
Kenneth H. Cooper
#35. Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny ... it is also her vulnerability.
Susan Sontag
#36. An explanation of an old man's mistakes. For I see now that what I have done, and not done, with regard to you, bears all hallmarks of the failings of age. Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they what it was to be young ... and I seem to have forgotten lately ...
J.K. Rowling
#37. People have to change their concepts of aging and I am not asking them to do so based on some fanciful notion, but on scientific fact.
Deepak Chopra
#38. We watch our bodies and our brains slow down as younger bodies and brains zip past us, and we just accept it, not realizing there is a whole world offering to sharpen and improve us. We simply need to look for it.
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
#39. It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#40. Aging is not an option, but how we age is completely within our choices. Lifestyle
Sharon Lee Rasa
#41. Dr. Henry Lodge, coauthor of Younger Next Year, makes the point sharply. "It turns out," he says, "that 70% of American aging is not real aging. It's just decay. It's rot from the stuff that we do.
Ken Robinson
#42. She is leaving him, not all at once, which would be painful enough, but in a wrenching succession of separations. One moment she is here, and then she is gone again, and each journey takes her a little farther from his reach. He cannot follow her, and he wonders where she goes when she leaves.
Debra Dean
#43. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Peter De Vries
#44. Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.
Iris Apfel
#45. Chronic illness is not caused by a bad gene, or a Gypsy curse, nor is it a function of aging. Chronic disease is caused by chronic nutrient deficiencies.
Peter Glidden
#46. When I'm grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals ... it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.
Darby Stanchfield
#47. I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#48. You always thought older people were wiser. It's not that. It's just that our relatives are dead and we're able to speak freely.
Ariel Gore
#49. If you say 'anti-aging,' how anti would it have to be, really? My guess is not much. Any amount of sunscreen could be considered anti-aging.
Erin McKean
#50. Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.
Laozi
#51. But from the perspective of the aging parent, there is no major difference between four and fifteen, except that when your child is four, his motoring privileges are restricted to little toy Fisher-Price vehicles which are unlikely (although I would not totally rule it out in America) to sue you.
Dave Barry
#52. To have the experience I did as a child, I would have to be a physically different being, one with whom I share nearly nothing. On a cellular level, aside from the neurons of my cerebral cortex and a few other stranglers in my heart and eyes, I am not him.
Thomm Quackenbush
#53. At eighty things do not occur; they recur.
Alan Bennett
#54. Our society on a whole is trained to see young women. There are proportionally far more of them on magazine covers, on TV, and in films than int the actual population. As a result, we have a citizenry taught to see the young and ignore the not-so-young. It isn't conscious; it's Pavlovian. (13)
Victoria Moran
#55. Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#56. Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
Ingmar Bergman
#57. All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.
Thomas Jefferson
#58. The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.
S. Jay Olshansky
#59. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it.
Mitch Albom
#60. Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?
Tucker Carlson
#62. Are you thankful for not being young?'
'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see? ...
Charles Dickens
#63. The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another - it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
John Scalzi
#64. How can I appreciate light from an aging
sun shining through new configurations neither pine
nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing
fragrances from the spires, the spicules
of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?
Pattiann Rogers
#65. Women not only bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth, we perpetuate it - every time we dye our hair to cover the gray or lie about our age, not to mention have plastic surgery to cover the signs of aging.
Ashton Applewhite
#66. We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
Deepak Chopra
#67. (It has become clear to me, for example, that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency, and bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.)
James Hollis
#68. It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view]
Marco Vichi
#70. I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to catch a young husband. Instead they are only a mask we wear so that we can, for a little while, still recognize ourselves.
Rebecca Johns
#71. I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
Jawaharlal Nehru
#72. Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging.
Deepak Chopra
#73. Why couldn't everyone stay young forever? If not on the outside, then just on the inside, where no one ever got too old to be optimistic.
Emma Straub
#74. When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to.
Andy Rooney
#75. We need women friends, women who challenge us. I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.
Jane Fonda
#76. You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)
Victoria Moran
#77. I have no patience with people who grow old at sixty... Sixty should be the time to start something new, not put your feet up.
Mary Wesley
#78. The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face
Quentin Crisp
#79. In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
Naoto Kan
#80. I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.
Amy Sedaris
#81. There is something about my face in the mirrors that catch it. Even at a distance it will never be right again, not even to a casual glance. Beauty: it's the upkeep that costs, that's what Balzac said, not the initial investment.
Joanna Walsh
#82. The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.
Alex Witchel
#83. Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. She also taught me that aging need not mean narrowing the scope of your activities and interests or a diminution of the great pleasures to be had in the everyday.
Martha Stewart
#84. My mother is not somebody who's troubled by aging.
Annette Bening
#86. Growth is there for everybody, but it is not everybody who 'grows'! So many people grow to stop growing, but aging never stops for mankind until we come to the ebb of our days! Grow in something as you grow and leave something unique!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#88. The amount of women you hear say, "If Donald - or Arthur - or whatever his name was - had only lived." And I sometimes think but if he had, he'd have been a stout, unromantic, short-tempered, middle-aged husband as likely as not.
Agatha Christie
#89. I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
Barbara Hershey
#90. As you ripen, you'll notice that time is the weirdest thing in the world, that these surprises are relentless, and that getting older is not a stroll but an ambush.
Andrew Solomon
#91. I'm just at the age when time speeds up in an odd way. Do you know what I mean? The winters come closer together and you learn to accept that you're not special anymore.
Ann Druyan
#92. Aging is not an option, not for anyone. It is how gracefully we handle the process and how lucky we are, as the process handles us.
Cindy McDonald
#93. We're always trotting out some story of a ninety-seven-year-old who runs marathons, as if such cases were not miracles of biological luck but reasonable expectations for all. Then, when our bodies fail to live up to this fantasy, we feel as if we somehow have something to apologize for.
Atul Gawande
#94. I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
Isabel Allende
#96. When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain
#97. Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox.
Meir Soloveichik
#98. Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
Viktor E. Frankl
#99. A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.
Ruth Gordon
#100. It amazes me that we spend 20% of the US budget on defense and far-off wars, and not on fighting cancer, disease, and aging.
Zoltan Istvan
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